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Can an applicant for a new electricity grid connection compel an electricity provider to seek a necessary wayleave if the electricity provider needs to lay a cable across third party land to provide the connection, eg where the rights to obtain a necessary wayleave exist but the electricity provider is refusing to apply for one and insists the applicant must arrange consent for a wayleave with the third party landowner?

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Published on: 21 November 2024
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The Electricity Act 1989 (EA 1989) sets out statutory duties for electricity providers in relation to new electricity connections. If the connection requires laying infrastructure across third-party land, and the rights to obtain a necessary wayleave exist, the following points may be relevant:

Electricity provider’s statutory duty to connect

EA 1989, s 16 provides that an electricity distributor is under a duty:

‘(a) to make a connection between a distribution system of his and any premises, when required to do so by—

(i) the

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